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Feels like there’s a few different things that can underwrite a rules-based order with teeth, besides military power (which includes embargos/blockades) Veto-based legal regimes (UNSC) Currency exchange rates (WB/IMF) Technical-standards based (ITU etc) Refugee policies
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That’s reductive. The point is they create a space of possibilities between conflict and force. Kinda tautological that everything is ultimately reducible to force, but in practice that’s irrelevant.
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And violence in practice is vastly different from in theory. Every agent with any significant capacity for violence is constrained by its own bad memories of past ineffective use.